Somewhere in DraftKings' database, there's a number attached to your account. It's your lifetime losses — every dollar you deposited minus every dollar you withdrew. They know it to the penny. They use it to decide when to send you a free bet, when to offer you a deposit bonus, and when to leave you alone because you're about to deposit again anyway.
You don't have that number. You have a guess.
The information asymmetry
This is the thing that made me angry enough to build something. Every gambling platform tracks your activity in real time. They know your average bet size, your favorite times to play, how you respond to losses, and exactly how much net revenue you've generated for them. They use machine learning to predict your behavior and optimize their engagement with you.
But when you try to find your own total? Good luck. Most platforms don't show you a lifetime losses number anywhere. They'll show you your recent transactions, maybe your last 30 days. They'll show you your wins in big green numbers. The losses get buried in transaction history that you'd have to manually export and add up yourself.
I had to nag online bookies to send me my own transaction history. Most of them made it extremely difficult — I had to escalate support tickets, wait weeks, follow up repeatedly. One platform sent me a CSV with thousands of rows and no totals. Another said they couldn't provide historical data past 12 months.
They know exactly how much you've lost. They built their business model on it. They just don't think you should know too.
This is by design
Think about it from the sportsbook's perspective. If every user could see a single, clear, lifetime losses number at the top of their account — no digging, no exporting, just the fact — what would happen? People would stop. Not everyone. But enough. Enough to matter.
That's why they don't show it. It's not an oversight. It's not a missing feature. It's a business decision. Showing you your real losses would cost them money, so they don't.
Your bank knows the truth
Here's the thing, though — your bank has every transaction. Every deposit to every platform. Every withdrawal back. The complete picture already exists. It's just scattered across months of statements and multiple accounts.
That's what BetOnYou does. It connects to your bank — securely, through Plaid, the same technology your Venmo and budgeting apps use — and pulls every gambling transaction. Deposits, withdrawals, net losses. By platform, by month, as one total. The number the sportsbooks have but won't show you.
You deserve to have the same information they do. It's your money.